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🐱 How to draw a cat

A cat comes down to a few very typical shapes – a round head, pointed ears and whiskers. Exactly these features make it easy to recognise, for humans and for an AI alike.

Step by step

  1. Draw a round to slightly oval head in the middle.
  2. Add two triangular ears on top – pointing up, that's the most important cat feature.
  3. Draw two eyes, a small triangular nose and a narrow mouth.
  4. Add two to three whiskers on each side as straight lines.
  5. Optional: a simple body as an arc below and a curved tail.

Tips for high recognition rates

Why these features matter is explained on the About the AI page: the neural network looks at the typical shape, not at clean lines.

Common mistake

Drawing the head too small relative to the body – the cat then looks more like some other animal. On a cat the head is allowed to be large.

Try it right away

Draw “cat” in DrawClash and see how fast the AI guesses it.

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